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1. Sloane MS 93

Reference (shelfmark):
Sloane MS 93
Title:
Gabriel Harvey's letters and poems
Scope & Content:
ff. 1*r–104r: Volume of holograph transcripts of letters and poems by Gabriel Harvey, of Saffron Walden, Fellow of Pembroke and Trinity Hall, Cambridge, 1573–1578. It includes his poems upon the death of the poet George Gascoigne (1534–1577), an account (either fictional or truthful) of the sedu...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
1573-1578
Extent:
1 volume

2. Sloane MS 116

Reference (shelfmark):
Sloane MS 116
Title:
A small-size luxury prayerbook
Scope & Content:
This small-sized luxury prayerbook was produced in France around 1520, but apparently owned by an anonymous English woman in or before 1530. It features holograph inscriptions of King Henry VIII and Cardinal Wolsey addressed to her. The manuscript’s full-page illustrations are in the style of th...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French and Latin
Date Range:
c 1520
Extent:
1 volume

3. Sloane MS 226

Reference (shelfmark):
Sloane MS 226
Title:
Roger Marbeck, An account of the taking of Cadiz, 1596
Scope & Content:
Roger Marbeck, "A breefe and a true discourse of the late honorable voyage unto Spayne and the wynning, sacking and burning of the famous Towne of Cadiz there, and of the miraculous overthrowe of the Spanishe Navie at that tyme, with a reporte of all other Accidents thereunto appertayning, by Do...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
1596-1597
Extent:
1 volume

4. Sloane MS 278

Reference (shelfmark):
Sloane MS 278
Title:
Hugh of Fouilloy, Aviarium; a Bestiary
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-43v: Hugh of Fouilloy or Hugo de Folieto (b. c. 1100, d. c. 1172), prior of St.-Nicholas-de-Regny, Aviarium, or De avibus, consisting of 60 chapters in two sections: 37 chapters of mostly scriptural exegesis, drawing on the Bible and the Greek Physiologus. The first 11 chapt...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd or 3rd quarter of the 13th century
Extent:

1 volume

5. Sloane MS 314

Reference (shelfmark):
Sloane MS 314
Title:
Geoffrey Chaucer, 'Treatise on the Astrolabe', with a treatise on geomancy and an account of a necromantic ritual
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains a copy of the 'Treatise on the Astrolabe', written by poet Geoffrey Chaucer (b. c. 1340s, d. 1400), together with a treatise on geomancy, an account of a necromantic ritual, and a fragment of a baptismal office from a 13th-century missal. It has been suggested that the...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle, French, Middle, and Latin
Date Range:
2nd quarter of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

6. Sloane MS 324

Reference (shelfmark):
Sloane MS 324
Title:
Michael Apostolis, Oratio ad Discipulos Suos, autograph copy
Scope & Content:
Autograph copy of an invective by Michael Apostolis, Greek humanist, directed against his student Emmanuel Atramyttenos and another Emmanuel (possibly, Manuel Gregoropoulos, according to Barker p. 14). Tit. Μιχαήλου Ἀποστόλη τοῦ Βυζαντίου, Λόγος κατὰ Ἐμμανουηλοῖν μιαρωτάτοιν αὐτοῦ φοιτηταῖν, τοῦ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Greek, Ancient and Latin
Date Range:
1460?
Extent:

1 volume

7. Sloane MS 345

Reference (shelfmark):
Sloane MS 345
Title:
A compendium of medical and scientific texts with a calendar
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-6r: Reyner Oesterhusen, Doctor of Deventer, Holland, Compendium medicinale, with a prologue addressed to the Bishop of Utrecht, with the title, 'Compendiu[m] q[ui]dda[m] medici[n]ale Reyneri Oesterhusen dave[n]trie[n]sis utile curatori egrotanti Et volenti servare sanitatem'; ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Dutch and Latin
Date Range:
c. 1500
Extent:

1 volume

8. Sloane MS 361

Reference (shelfmark):
Sloane MS 361
Title:
Speculum humanae salvationis
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1-50: Speculum humanæ salvationis, consisting of the Prologue and Prohemium (ff. 1r-3v), 42 chapters consisting of 4 text columns each, with 4 miniatures above (ff. 4v-46r) and 3 final chapters without illustrations, consisting of the Seven Stations of the Passion, the Seven Sorr...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
15th century
Extent:

1 volume

9. Sloane MS 446

Reference (shelfmark):
Sloane MS 446
Title:
Compilation of astronomical and astrological material, including excerpts from Geoffrey Chaucer's 'Treatise on the Astrolabe'
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-104v: Compilation of astronomical and astrological material, entitled 'Astronomiae aphorismi', including excerpts from Geoffrey Chaucer's 'Treatise on the Astrolabe' (ff. 50r, 56r).
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 16th century
Extent:

1 volume

10. Sloane MS 702

Reference (shelfmark):
Sloane MS 702
Title:
Collection of texts, excerpts and notes on astrology and astronomy, with accompanying tables and diagrams
Scope & Content:
Contents: f. 1r: Added ownership inscriptions and former shelfmarks. ff. 1v-33v: A collection of texts, excerpts and brief notes on astrology and astronomy, using or citing authorities including Al-Qabisi (or Alcabitius), Mashallah ibn Athari (or Messahallah), Abu Ma'shar al-Balkhi (or Album...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
Late 15th century
Extent:
1 volume